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Improve your innovation process and create more patentable ideas

ALPINNO works with R&D leaders and innovation teams to improve how they generate, develop and protect ideas, and to strengthen the processes, ways of working and tools behind product development. AI is applied where it can deliver tangible business value.

Founder-led consulting, training and hands-on implementation, supported by AIdea™ software.

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Established client work since 2021

About ALPINNO GmbH

ALPINNO GmbH is a Swiss, founder-led consulting and technology company. It works with organisations where innovation, technology and intellectual property are strategic.

ALPINNO works with organisations that want to innovate more effectively and use AI in ways that deliver tangible business value. The work often involves strengthening or scaling product-development processes, ways of working and the tools that support them, including AI-assisted tools.

Pier Paolo Monticone established Monticone Consulting in 2021, building a commercial track record in AI transformation, AI-assisted data-driven innovation, intellectual-property creation and workflows, and Agile execution across R&D and new-product development. In 2025, ALPINNO GmbH was incorporated to scale this work and extend the established consulting model with proprietary software, licensing and deployment through AIdea™.

Consulting, training and coaching, and hands-on implementation remain core ALPINNO services. AIdea™ is both the platform ALPINNO uses internally to deliver AI-assisted, data-driven innovation projects and a product that can be deployed and licensed for client teams. Services and software can be engaged independently or combined according to the client's objectives, capabilities, data requirements and technology environment.

Clients work directly with Pier Paolo. When a project needs additional capacity or specialist skills, ALPINNO brings in trusted external specialists for work such as 3D engineering drawings, patent research and documentation, and computer simulation.

The vision is to enable R&D and innovation teams to apply a proven, human-led invention process with greater speed, lower effort, stronger quality and full traceability.

Where ALPINNO can help

Three areas of work

ALPINNO combines AI and digital capabilities, innovation and IP expertise, and Agile execution methods to help organisations move from strategic opportunity to implemented value.

AI Transformation and Capability Building

Help leaders and teams define an AI strategy, integrate it into the wider digital-transformation roadmap and build the skills, governance, workflows and tools required to create practical business value.

  • AI strategy and integration into digital-transformation roadmaps
  • Discovery, assessment and prioritisation of AI opportunities and use cases
  • Workflow, automation and AI-agent design
  • AI governance, risk, standards and regulatory readiness
  • AI-literacy programmes supporting obligations such as Article 4 of the EU AI Act
  • Hands-on implementation, adoption and change enablement
  • Leadership and team workshops
  • Prompt engineering and effective use of leading AI tools
  • Role-specific AI training and one-to-one coaching
  • Advanced and agentic ways of working

AI-Assisted Data-Driven Innovation and IP

Combine proprietary and public data, structured innovation methods and AI to discover opportunities, create differentiated concepts and capture protectable inventions throughout the front end of innovation and the new-product-development process.

  • Innovation blueprints, briefs and opportunity framing
  • Customer, market, company, patent, scientific and technology intelligence
  • AI-assisted data-driven ideation and cross-pollination
  • Concept generation, development, evaluation and prioritisation
  • Invention capture and invention-disclosure creation throughout NPD
  • AI-assisted preliminary prior-art and patentability analyses
  • AI-assisted preliminary freedom-to-operate screening
  • Patent landscapes and technology landscapes
  • Innovation, invention and IP-process design and improvement

Agile Execution, Projects, Programmes and PMO Excellence

Strengthen and scale the methods, governance, tools and working practices used to deliver innovation and new-product development with speed, transparency and appropriate control.

  • Agile methods, including Scrum, Kanban and Agile at Scale
  • Hybrid NPD methods, including Agile stage-and-gate approaches
  • Agile, hybrid and waterfall NPD-process design and improvement
  • Project, programme, risk and project-portfolio management
  • PMO processes, portfolio governance, tools and reporting systems
  • Selection, development and implementation of digital project and portfolio tools
  • Process documentation, procedures and standard operating procedures
  • Team workshops, training, facilitation and review meetings

Proprietary ALPINNO technology

AIdea™: the AI-assisted, data-driven innovation and invention platform

AIdea™ guides expert teams through a structured, flexible and iterative innovation workflow. It combines corporate knowledge, AIdea™-curated knowledge and public intelligence, including patents, scientific publications and selected web sources, to create evidence-grounded opportunities, ideas, concepts, inventions and invention disclosures.

A setup phase establishes the innovation brief, data sources, methods and governance. Teams then work through focused innovation sprints, moving iteratively between evidence, exploration, concept development, invention capture and review.

AI assists the process; human experts define, select, refine and approve the inventive contribution.

AIdea™ records decisions, expert contributions, evidence and iterations, preserving traceability from source knowledge to inventive features and final disclosure. Inventorship and patentability remain subject to the applicable jurisdiction and the facts of each invention.

A guided process that adapts as knowledge matures

From innovation brief to protectable concepts

Teams can move backwards and forwards across phases as evidence, priorities and concepts develop.

  1. Phase 1

    Frame & Ground

    1. 01Innovation brief
    2. 02Project context and evidence
    3. 03Evidence-grounded personas
  2. Phase 2

    Explore & Create

    1. 04Lines of thought
    2. 05Innovation triggers
    3. 06Ideas
  3. Phase 3

    Develop & Protect

    1. 07Developed concepts
    2. 08Invention disclosures
    3. 09Preliminary product-design directions
Portfolio governance and traceability Weighted evaluation, versions, decision history, evidence lineage, data quality and reporting support the complete workflow.

Evidence from previous work

Faster innovation with less effort

Up to 75%lower effort
Up to 4×faster
Up to 2×better innovation outcomes

These results draw on Pier Paolo's prior innovation work and his experience as a named inventor or co-inventor on 270 patent records.

  • Customer relevanceEvidence-grounded consumer insights and personas keep innovation connected to real customer and consumer needs.
  • Cross-pollinationMultidisciplinary, cross-industry and technology evidence expands the solution space and supports more disruptive directions.
  • Patentability supportEarly, preliminary checks of novelty and inventive step help teams prioritise concepts with stronger patent potential.
  • Faster documentationAI-assisted invention-disclosure creation reduces the documentation burden while improving speed, completeness, consistency and traceability.
AIdea™ innovation workspace interface

Tailored to the organisation

Flexible delivery and deployment

AIdea™ provides one guided innovation environment across deployment models selected for the organisation's data sensitivity, security requirements, workload and preferred technology environment.

Compact local AI appliance

Private local inference in a compact, dedicated form.

Secure cloud access

Managed or customer-controlled cloud deployment.

AIdea™ guided innovation workspace
One AIdea™ experience Infrastructure tailored to the organisation

AI workstation

Higher-performance local computing for demanding workloads.

Private AI server

Customer-controlled infrastructure for teams and larger workloads.

ALPINNO-led or customer-operatedUse AIdea™ in an ALPINNO-facilitated engagement or within your own team.

Enabled and supportedSetup, onboarding, methodology training, administration training and ongoing support.

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Choose the support you need

Flexible ways to work with ALPINNO

Choose focused consulting, capability-building, implementation or software support, or combine them around the organisation's objectives, data, capabilities and technology environment.

A practical way of working

How we work

  1. 01

    Understand

    Align objectives, stakeholders, constraints, available data and knowledge, and the outcomes that matter.

  2. 02

    Design

    Define the strategy, methodology, process, governance, technology and delivery approach best suited to the challenge.

  3. 03

    Deliver

    Create practical outputs through workshops, implementation, innovation assets, IP work, processes, tools or AIdea™ deployment.

  4. 04

    Enable and Scale

    Build lasting internal capability through training, coaching, knowledge transfer, governance and ongoing support.

Experience behind the work

About the Founder

Portrait of Pier Paolo Monticone, founder and Managing Director of ALPINNO GmbH

Pier Paolo Monticone, PhD ETH, MAS ETH MTEC and PMP, is the founder and Managing Director of ALPINNO GmbH. He works directly with clients, bringing more than 15 years of experience in innovation, R&D, product development and programme management.

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  • His experience spans medical devices, AI and high-tech products.
  • Former Head of the AI-Assisted Data-Driven Innovation Lab at JTI.
  • Former Head of R&D Department at CorWave.
  • Former Project Manager Innovative Medical Devices at Helbling, where he led the development of the world's first electronic autofocus intraocular lens.
  • Founder of EyeTech, an ETH spin-off created to commercialise a patent developed during his PhD.
  • Named inventor or co-inventor on 270 patent records and invited speaker at 20+ international conferences.
  • His PhD at ETH Zurich focused on a high-performance medical device for ophthalmic applications. He also holds advanced product-owner and Agile facilitation certifications.
  • Italian and Swiss; works in English, Italian, German and French.

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